Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-29
The Weekly Exposition
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1887.
COUNTY COLUMN.

seriously Ill, is SLOWLY improving.
P.F. Powrie and Miss Cora Ruddock
of st. Clair, were married the 2lst.
The prisoners at the County jail had
a sumputous repast on Christmas.
A number of smuggled horses have
recently been seized ut Port Huron.
The Pigott Sisters gave good enter
tainment ut Capac the other evening.
The Baptist church at Capac are
trying to raise funds to hire minister.
An enormous amount of hay is being
received daily at the grain market in
Emmett.
The Business College at Port Huron
has rs scholars, AZ Of which are from
small towns.
The disappearance Of night watch
man Frank Anderson is as much a
mystery as ever.
john Bean and Miss Hattie Newell,
Of Fort Gratiot, were married last
thursday evening.
Port Huron will soon lose her lady
lawyer, Miss Ada Lee. Miss Lee goes
to Los Angeles. Cal.
Alex Mccullough, Il saloonist of PIT.
Huron died last week Tuesday from
the effects of whisky.
Alderman O'Malley from the third
ward, Port Huron, died last week of
rheumatism of the heart.
Port Huron will probably have a
railroad passenger depot on the north
side OF Military st. bridge.
The Ladies Aid of the L. Nj. church
at Smiths Creek are raising the where
with-all to purchase bell.
The wife of |. r.. Wadsworth super
intendent of the p. II. q Y. W. R'y is
quite ill at home at Y DIRK station.
The ladies OF Grace church, Port HUI
ron presented their minister, who will
make trip to Arizona, with 800 in
gold
The X. O. y. NJ. Tent at Berville
gave an oyster supper last Thursday
evening Several neighboring tents
were present.
NJ. Shanahan, of Wales, claiming
that John Darling and ID. Lashbrook
had threatened his life, has sworn out q
warrant for their arrest.
\ son of Adkins Hudson aged 90
years, died at his home near Jeddo
last week of hemorrhage ofthe nose and
bowels, resulting from typhoid fever.
Three babies, each III a basket. were
left at three different doorsteps in PIT.
Huron, Friday eve before Christmas.
They were all taken in and will be car
ed for.
\ church directory will be issued by
! the thirteen churches of Port Huron
and Fort Gratiot. which will be hung
in railway stations, hotels and other
public places.
The Capac Journal gave its readers a
double dose of reading matter last week
and the editors were obliged to lay off
this week on account of it. and no pa
per was issued.
Marine City expects soon to have
natural gas to use. 1t is thought that
any quantity will be found there, and
a subscription list has been started
with $500 already.
Since January 1st 1856 bodies have
been buried in Lakeside cemetery
| About two-thirds of these were from
Port Huron and the remainder from the
surrounding townships.-POrt Huron
| Times.
Here's honesty: A gentleman from
Buffalo dropped his pocketbook con-
tanning over $500 on Huron Avenue,
| Port Huron. An eleven year old lad
found it, restored it and received $40
from its owner.
\ fire at Wales Centre the 18th con-
sumed the house and all within of
Joseph Parish But for the efforts of
John Oliver. the aged mother of Parish,
would have persisted in the flames
Both were badly burned.
We understand that a. Z. Fitzger-
aid, who has been postal clerk OH the
p. II. Il n. w. for some time past, has
received an appointment to 5000 place
in the document room at Washington
ID. G. evil take his new position
after the holidays.
$. NJ. Maddux, who has been in the
employ of the Port Huron x North.
western Railway for the last foul
years, died very suddenly in Port HUI
ron last week. On his way home from
work he called at the drug store to get
some medicine as he was feeling I'm.
well. A few minutes after he left the
drug store he was found lying on the
walk. and died soon after Three
daughters are left in bad circumstances